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At Drogheda, on the main road between Dublin and Ulster,

在都柏林和阿尔斯特间的必经之路 德罗赫达

he made it only too clear what he had in mind.

他的意图 已经表达得再清楚不过了

There's no point side-stepping this horror, is there?

不可否认 这样的行径实为恐怖

This was Cromwell's war crime, an atrocity so hideous,it's contaminated Anglo-Irish history ever since.

这是克伦威尔的战争罪行 令人发指的暴行 是盎格鲁撒克逊人史无前例的污点

We need to get right just what this atrocity was.

我们需要明晰这是怎样一场暴行

What it wasn't was the indiscriminate butchery of women and children.

他并没有对 妇女和儿童不加区别地屠杀

No eye-witnesses ever claimed to have seen any such thing.

没有目击者声称亲眼目睹过这样的屠杀

But what Cromwell did order,unhesitatingly and without any mercy,

不过克伦威尔所下的命令 确是毫不犹豫 不加丝毫怜悯的

was, in any case, an act of unspeakable murder.

令人发指的谋杀

At least 3,000 royalist soldiers were butchered at Drogheda,

至少三千名保皇党士兵 在德罗赫达被屠杀

the vast majority after they had surrendered and disarmed.

虽然他们大多都已经缴械投降

At St Peter's Church,Cromwell had his soldiers burn the pews beneath the steeple

在圣彼得大教堂 克伦威尔命士兵 在尖塔下点燃教堂长椅

to smoke out the defenders,who were incinerated in the flames.

把抵抗者熏出来 后者最终被大火吞噬

The General saw no need to hang his head about the massacre.

这是赤裸裸的大屠杀 而他却不以为意

We are come to break the power of lawless rebels who, having cast off the authority of England,

我们来此只是清剿目无法纪的叛徒 那些脱离了英格兰的管束

live as enemies to human society,whose principles are to destroy and subjugate all men not complying with them.

成为人类社会公敌的人 他们意在摧毁和荡平 一切不服从他们的人

词汇解析

1、surrender

投降;屈服

General Martin Bonnet called on the rebels to surrender.

马丁·邦尼特将军呼吁反叛者投降。

She surrendered to the police in London last December.

她去年 12 月在伦敦向警方自首。

(被迫)放弃，交出

Nadja had to fill out forms surrendering all rights to her property.

纳佳不得不填表放弃其全部财产所有权。

Gen. Morgan's troops yesterday surrendered their heavy weapons to Belgian and US troops.

昨天，摩根将军的部队被迫向比利时和美国军队交出了他们的重型武器。

屈服;屈从

the need for total personal surrender to and dependence on Jesus.

需要完全顺从并依靠耶稣

Depression is a partial surrender to death.

沮丧是对死亡的一定妥协。

2、principle

道德原则；行为准则；操守

Buck never allowed himself to be bullied into doing anything that went against his principles...

巴克从来不会因为受到威胁而做违背自己原则的事情。

moral principles.

道德准则

法则；原则；原理

a violation of the basic principles of Marxism.

违背马克思主义的基本原则

The doctrine was based on three fundamental principles.

这个学说建立在三条基本原理之上。

（科学）原理，定律

These people lack all understanding of scientific principles.

这些人对科学原理一窍不通。

the principles of quantum theory.

量子论原理